The Child Protection and Family Services Agency, the CPFSA, has intervened in the situation involving five children who were rescued from Caribbean Terrance in Harbour View, St. Andrew during the passage of Hurricane Beryl.
Our news team had appealed for help for the children and their family after it became clear they were housed in a dilapidated structure which would be unable to withstand the wind and waves associated with the coming hurricane.
Daina Davy has more on this Nationwide News follow up.
Our news team encountered the children and their parents on Wednesday just two hours before Hurricane Beryl started battering Jamaica.
One of the adults we encountered appealed for help relocating from the house. The structure was leaking and was being precariously held together by a combination of board and zinc.
Sections of the roof were also falling in.
The family was eventually rescued by the police and Councillor for the Harbour View Division, Horace Clue.
They were relocated to a nearby shelter to ride out the hurricane.
The CPFSA was one of the first agencies to respond to the pleas from our news centre.
Two days after the hurricane’s passage, the agency has provided an update on the situation.
Three of the children have now been taken into the care of the CPFSA.
Laurette Adams Thomas heads the agency.
Mrs. Adams Thomas says one of the children has since been reunited with her parent.
The CPFSA is appealing to Jamaicans to report all cases of suspected child abuse or neglect directly to the agency by Whatsapp or by phone to 876-878-2882 and 876-822-7031.
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